Living the Liminal

Due to a series of unfortunate occurrences, the LtL blog has been struggling to get back to a fully functional state. This should be complete by the end of the week. Thanks for your patience.

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If you are an inveterate tweaker of computers, always trying to find a new cool program that will do things better or just differently, if you are not afraid of installing programs that haven’t even reached version 1.0, if you are not totally enamored with iTunes, or if you really love finding new music and [...]

Lobbyists Find New Congress is Open for Business
Lobbyists who dreaded Democratic control find they’re being heard.
by Tom Hamburger and Janet Hook
Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi terrified the oil industry late last year when she outlined her priorities for the new Democratic majorities in Congress. Within the first 100 hours, she promised, they would “roll back [...]

This doesn’t seem right . . . I’m not really hot-headed and certainly don’t have strong will power. But I guess if the computer says I am Green Lantern than who am I to argue? Now if I could just remember where I left that ring . . .
Your results:
You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern

65%

Supergirl

62%

Superman

60%

Spider-Man

55%

Hulk

55%

Robin

49%

Wonder Woman

47%

Batman

45%

Catwoman

45%

Iron [...]

Ultra-Dense Optical Storage — on One Photon from PhysOrg.com
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image’s worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.
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WIND SHEAR, a sudden, drastic change in wind direction or speed over a comparatively short distance. Most winds travel horizontally, as does most wind shear, but under certain conditions, including thunderstorms and strong frontal systems, wind shear will travel in a vertical direction. Microburst wind shear is an extremely violent downward blast of air that [...]

For too long now I have been grasping for at straws rather than making my own chocolate milkshake.